source code

I think of what I did today; nothing except sit on my computer working on
gettting my flash card configured as my computer is downloading an upgrade.
This gets me to thinking: is it possible tto download the source cope and
compile everything from scratch? Would it be faster ? What initially got me
to wondering about this is when I did a dist-upgrade. It took 27 hours! I
went to my parents house in Rimrock, spent the day, spent the night, came
home and it was still downloading! This time it only took 9 hours. yipee I
forgot, some of the packages didn't download:( I have to do it again after
dkq gets done (that's what it is doing now).

Seeing as how my ISP only gives me 159 hours a month (I was told wrong when I
was told 1000 hours) it might be better if I could just do the source code
and then spend the time compiling it off line.

That reminds me; I was told that that they were soon to release kernel 2.6 and
that it is supposed to be like super fast (that is one area I think M$ is
better at). It might just be the fact that I am only on dial up- but M$
seemed to operste a little faster (minor inconvenience that does not matter)
when I was running it. Could someone tell me what about my hardware I will
need to know when I compile it. My linux metor told me that what he does is
just gets a new distribution with the new kernel included in it but I want to
learn to compile it!

Well, let me know.
--
<:-)~MIKE~(-:>






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